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"I need to imagine some end to life that transcends my tiny allotment of time and space," says the author of this wide-ranging, heartfelt, and intelligent book. "But I find it difficult to dream in a world filled with nightmarish violence. And yet I can't let go. I try to find my footing in an absurd world and search for signs of meaning and direction in the twisted turns of history that my generation has witnessed. I need to know how to dream in a world of diminishing expectations."

A very wealthy killer is coming after Gays in New York City.

Beneath every veneer, beneath the person who is you, there are secrets, never acknowledged, never told nor shared. It is your sexuality, and mine, a compendium of dark influences, of seeds sown, of lost fleeting moments that run us wild, ragged. Ever constant, we deny our nature of want, desire, guilt, shame. Ever constant, we succumb to the subterranean pull of pleasure and pain. It is here where the story begins. Welcome. The Simple Mechanic of Infinite ExecutionLinda A. LavidFull Court Press, 104 pages, (paperback), $12.95, 9780981707075(Reviewed July, 2013)Dear Reader, you are invited into this meta fiction novella from the very first sentence, wherein Ms. Lavid admits, while doing it, she's cajoling you with sexual and suggestive phrase, because, Dear Reader, you like to read about naughty girls, don't you? And so it goes, your voyeuristic romp on Lavid's runaway express train -her big long engine throbbing and chugging - see, you do like it, even though you might squirm or wince now and again, it carries you along, as it hurtles through a sexual encounter that begins in a corporate lunchroom where you are "struck by the close proximity of the man and woman who are waiting for sandwiches. . .so close they could whisper. . . so close they could pass state secrets. . . so close no good is sure to come of it," where "Let's fly" seals the deal. Sure, Dear Reader, come, volare!The verbal express gathers speed, as we fly, united, to her point: the way out is through! The heroine embraces her slutiness "without guilt, without caring". She "removes the chains of the past" and is saved, spreads her wings, yes, Dear Reader and her legs, and learns to fly. It may not be easy. "She wills herself to stay steady . . . Darkness is around her . . . The only direction is straight ahead." The (anti)hero is left only with the memories of that first-time flight, and, Dear Reader, you see clearly who the real slut is, don't you? So pardon me while I light a couple of cigarettes and pass one to you. It was good. Very good. Ciao, cara.

For centuries Turkey has served as a gateway between the East and West, joining people from near and distant cultures. This book is a collection of recipes from those living in Ankara, Turkey for one reason or another: Some are natives. Some are transplants. Some are passing through on a road to another destination.This book is about them and the places they come from. It is a collection of cookery and tradition - two of the ingredients that connect a community. Many of the recipes are simple and easy, while others are more complex. All provide clues about the customs of those who generously contributed to this project.Afiyet olsun.

Instantly Improve Your Communication SkillsSince 2003 The Communication Jungle has helped thousands of people improve their understanding of themselves and their relationships with others. It's fast, easy to use, and accurate."I think I am an LMNOP" The Communication Jungle eliminates the "alphabet soup" of letter confusion people often face when using other style instruments. Instead, this profile connects symbols people are already familiar with to business communication concepts.Benefits Understand behavior Learn how and when to adapt behavior Improve communication Promote appreciation of differences Enhance individual and team performance Reduce conflictPick up this guide, and improve your relationships today.

A rule is broken-and Mercy finds she is alone. Has everyone left, or has she left them? Struggling through her confusion she finds answers by letting go of distorted truths, awakening to a glimpse of who she is.

Within a farming valley in the Catskill Mountains are challenges, tragedy, and a decades-old family secret...24-year-old Mae McCain flees from New York City at the beginning of the COVID lockdown to her great-grandparents' abandoned farmhouse in the Catskill Mountains of Upstate New York, where she learns to survive on her own. Mae befriends six-year-old Wesley who lives nearby with his father. Through their experiences with nature and life in the rural valley, Mae and Wesley create a lasting bond. Unknown to Mae, Wesley has his own secrets. He believes that COVID is a monster living in his valley and that he alone must defend his father and new friend Mae from the danger it presents. In the attic of the old house, Mae discovers a box that contains papers describing how her great-grandmother Ruth became a pilot at a young age and then joined the prestigious Women Airforce Service Pilots. She, with over a thousand other women, contributed to the WWII war effort by ferrying aircraft from factories to airfields. Ruth's aviation history was kept quiet for decades. Mae gradually learns why the secret was never revealed. During the COVID lockdown, Mae discovers that she is pregnant. Afraid to go to a doctor's office or hospital because of the pandemic, she must figure out how to manage both the pregnancy and birth and eventually turns to the wife of a farmer to assist in a home birth. Throughout the book, chapters of Wesley and Ruth are interspersed with Mae's. Ruth's real daughter, Margaret DiBenedetto, has written many of her mothers' flight experiences into this fictional account about heritage and women of strength. Using occurrences from her own youth on her family's dairy farm, along with valley lore, DiBenedetto weaves a realistic tale of life in a rural farming town--the friendships, hardships and rewards.

Hoboken politician Johnny Kavanaugh has made a comfortable life for himself but must finally admit that he no longer recognizes the world around him. When he engages in uncharacteristic behavior-surrendering to the seductions of a gorgeous blonde constituent and opposing a major waterfront development-his fellow politicians predict his political demise, which hinges on an upcoming citywide referendum. These issues are further complicated when hazardous wastes are discovered at the site. As the campaign plays itself out, exhilarating success and embarrassing screw-up follow in rapid succession. The vote will force Johnny's life to take a radical turn. A father of four, James Dette lives in Weehawken, New Jersey, with his wife Evelyn. This novel was inspired by a challenge Russell Baker once made to his readers to "compose a list of ten well-known living people whose names would have caught Charles Dickens's eye." When he announced the winners, Mr. Dette was among the honorees. His travel articles, as well as light and serious op-ed commentaries, have appeared in such venues as The New York Times, Irish America, the Record, and Street News.

How a boy from Rochester, New York, found success and happiness by staying true to the values he grew up with.

Thrust into the Syrian desert by the Ottoman Turks, young Elise and her mother survived the 1915 Armenian death march. Twenty years later, her new life in America is more than she could ever have dreamed possible. The dream ends when her husband Leon dies and she is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. She has spent her entire adult life filling the woman's role she was taught to in Syria-cooked, cleaned, prayed, and looked after her three children. But she never leraned how to drive a car or manage a bank account. Leon saved enough for her to get by after his death. But he didn't think their lawyer son would turn his eye to those meagre savings. Elise's advancing dementia dimmed her awareness of the family strife swirling around her that would mark the last five years of her life. Elise's daughter offers a close-up view here of helping a dependent mother from a thousand miles away.

A Jewish woman in a 19th-century shtetl nearly loses her mind when her six-year-old son is torn from her arms, bound for a twenty-five-year enlistment in the Russian army. She spoils her second son rotten, a foolish, headstrong young man eventually married off to avoid the army but forced to flee to America when he gets a young relative of his in-laws, who is working in their home, pregnant. In New York during the draft riots of 1863, he gets an Irish girl who loves him pregnant too, but he refuses to marry her, conniving instead to win the heart of the homely only child of a wealthy, social climbing WASP mother and Catholic father. This plain girl follows the rogue. He abandons her as well when he discovers her parents have disowned her. In a twist of fate, the spurned Irishwoman and the homely girl meet and grow close. In the end, each fashions a wholly new life from the rubble of her past against a grand backdrop of the Civil War. How that happens is the secret of this richly human saga-and it drives the reader forward with one plot revelation after another until it reaches a profoundly unexpected series of climaxes.

Growing up in a family of Holocaust survivors, Joan Haahr was aware from an early age of the devastation wrought by the Nazis and their sympathizers on Europe's Jewish population. She also witnessed firsthand the dysfunctions that plagued many of those who had made it out alive. InPrisoners of Memory, Haahr realizes her lifelong ambition to uncover the stories behind the statistics in the Nazi records and learn as much as possible about thepre-war lives, deportations, and deathsof her grandparents and other close family members. Devoting herself fully to this project after retiring from her academic career, Haahr delves into troves of family letters, takes part in numerous conversations with those directly and indirectly affected by World War II, and gathers information from contacts in Germany,archives,and other historical research. In doing so, she seeks to understand the enduring legacy of tragedy as well as of perseverance and hope in the generations that followed the Holocaust.

LINDA PRINCIPE IS AN OLD-FASHIONED POET in one profound way: Uncommonly, she resists the temptation to write anything unless she has something to say-and this latest collection demonstrates what can be achieved by that standard.Here are poems to live with. They resonate with insights gained and lessons learned in honest encounters with the truer sides of this fleeting existence of ours-with love, friendship, and death in all their varied appearance.They are poems that glow with the smooth glow of sea-glass. For readers who have come to know Ms. Principe's work, this volume will be a treasure.And if you have never read her, the uncanny feel she has for the poetry in the very ordinary moments all of us share with her will offer you solace and joy, the lilt of humor and the plain unvarnished truth. They will ease your burdens and bathe you in reviving light.

"The lights were dim," writes the author of this compact, deeply heartwarming tale, "and I could only see shadows, but I felt a sense of warmth and peace around me. I was an infant in a bassinet. I do not remember the words my parents spoke, only the fact that I had such a wondrous feeling of love and security. I have managed, somehow or other, to preserve that feeling to this day." It''s a very powerful feeling to have somehow held onto that lies at the heart of her story. Most of us fail to manage it. Nancy Sabatino''s voice throughout is honest, clear-eyed, and utterly free of pretension. She''s a Brooklyn girl through and through. She knows, blissfully and invariably, who she is, speaking with a vivid sense of openness and confidence. Francis Loyola was right when he said that, if you gave him a child until the age of four, you could have her back for life; and the author''s character reveals itself on every page of Love of Life. She''s industrious, irrepressible, and utterly devoted to her parents, her husband, and her three boys through thick and thin. Hers is a story worth reading more than once, because it reminds us in unmistakable terms what truly matters in life-and how to find wonder and joy in all our waking moments.

Thirty-year-old Johnny Romano wants to be taken seriously, but the choices he makes-a one-man production of Waiting for Godot, a monumental sneeze in a cold syrup commercial, and a thirty-thousand-dollar gambling debt to Salvatore "Sally Toast" Tosterelli-have sabotaged his acting career. His bad decisions have, more importantly, put his four-and-a-half-year relationship with a woman he truly loves-soap opera star Laura Winters-on the edge of a cliff. Through a botched car theft, Johnny meets Virgil Shepherd, street person and sometime porter for a bar on Hudson Street in Greenwich Village. Scribbling his poems on napkins from Dunkin Donuts, Virgil is convinced that he is the Roman poet who guided Dante through Hell. Johnny is convinced that he is crazy. But as their lives converge, Johnny begins to suspect that the mysterious Virgil may actually have an agenda of his own. Set ten days before Christmas in 1997, Two Nickels follows this very unlikely pair through Manhattan (and a few choice spots on Staten Island) as they head toward the answer to a question that Johnny has done his best to avoid: What does it take for us to forgive ourselves and begin to heal?

Chief Inspector Maurice Clavel of the Paris criminal brigade has planned a relaxing Sunday when he's called to investigate a bizarre crime in the upscale Sixth arrondissement, where a young American has been viciously assaulted for no apparent reason. Ably assisted by Claire Simon, his very bright and alluring junior officer, by an American investigative reporter she becomes romantically involved with who is a close friend of the victim, and by a string of obscure clues-including shreds of pipe tobacco and photographs of twentieth-century Fauve paintings-Clavel methodically uncovers a very dark reality lurking beneath the gleaming surfaces of the city's genteel society. That includes its legendary art establishment, where even the work of artists one has never heard of can sell for astronomical sums, where the line between homage and forgery gets blurred, and clever people have constructed hidden scams that are notoriously difficult to reveal.

This is my closureThe result of years spent writing instead of healing,This is my soul finally having a resting placeMy lungs being free of the words that kept me from breathingAnd my heart once again pumping blood instead of ink.This book is who I used to be.Take these poems as they are and on their own terms, travel the roads the young woman who set them down has traveled, and you will be altered by being with them.Liat Silver is a twenty-year-old Communications student. Though she has been writing since the age of ten, this is her first published work. Writing poetry helped her find her voice and overcome the challenges of her teenage years. When not writing, she enjoys reading, typing out her thoughts on her vintage typewriter, and spending time with friends and family.

Say hello to Jesse, a teenage boy with curly brown hair, living in Hawaii with his adoptive mother, Nanney. He''s very close to Lani, a lovely girl who shares similar interests, and Dolphino, a star dolphin who has escaped from the Ocean World Theme Park. But who are Jesse''s real parents, and what''s happened to them? Are they still alive? Does he have any brothers or sisters? And if he does, what part will they play in his future?How would you like to win a Three-Year, All-Expense-Paid Vacation Anywhere on Planet Earth? That''s exactly what happened to Jesse''s parents, who are living on the Planet Plethoria, far beyond our galaxy. A long time ago, they won the grand prize in a dangerous space-race competition and chose Hawaii as their destination. How did they get there? How did they return to Plethoria-and why was Jesse left behind on Earth? Will they ever see him again?Adventurous boys, great friends, a very talented dolphin, loving parents, intergalactic travels-and all kinds of villains-are intricately connected in this science-fiction story that''s out of this world!

This book, by a widely experienced clinical psychologist, is a gentle invitation for readers to move through the many shades of absorbing a loved one's death, and provides those who are grieving, or anticipating loss, with a compassionate companion on one of the most difficult journeys of a lifetime. Organized into fifty-two sections, one for each week of the first year of loss, it offers meaningful reflections, meditations, and journal prompts to guide the reader along his or her path-including finding acceptance, inner healing, personal rituals, and much more. While supporting and comforting the reader through the acute and disorienting path of grief, Dr. Schmidt makes clear that it may take time to enter this difficult process after a loss and is not likely to end after marking the first anniversary. The book continues as a powerful resource for guidance and solace for as long as the reader needs it.